Nissan Note - Two winter wheels with tyres

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Thu 15 Dec 2011 16:27
Nissan Note - Two winter wheels with tyres - Ethan Edwards

On fleabay at the moment, there are two Note wheels shod with winter rubber. However they are 15 inch whereas my Note has 16 inch wheels. But their tyres are 65 profile whereas mine are 55 profile.

Would these be the same overall diameter?

Second I'm really dubious about just having the two wheels 'winterised'.

Cheap as they are I think I should let them go.

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Thu 15 Dec 2011 19:23
Nissan Note - Two winter wheels with tyres - thunderbird

On fleabay at the moment, there are two Note wheels shod with winter rubber. However they are 15 inch whereas my Note has 16 inch wheels. But their tyres are 65 profile whereas mine are 55 profile.

Would these be the same overall diameter?

Second I'm really dubious about just having the two wheels 'winterised'.

Cheap as they are I think I should let them go.

Winter tyres must be fitted in sets of four if you wish to remain pointing in the intended direction. Two will get you moving but overall stability especially braking needs balanced grip and only four matched tyres will give you that. Add to that your insurance company will get upset if you have an accident when using two winter tyres.

Best leave them IMHO unless you can find two more.

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Thu 15 Dec 2011 20:50
Nissan Note - Two winter wheels with tyres - unthrottled

Add to that your insurance company will get upset if you have an accident when using two winter tyres.

Is that true? Contrary to popular belief, insurance companies cannot easily void claims on trivial technicalities. Providing the tyre is legal and compatible with the wheel, they would have a difficult job refusing a claim.

Overall diamaters-you need the width of the tyre to calculate the overall diameter from aspect ratio.

Assuming 195mm width for both wheels:

15" +2*((195/25.4)*0.65)=25.0"

16" + 2*((195/25.4)*0.55)= 24.4"

The difference is 2.4%. As far as the speedo is concerned, not terribly important since it will under read by 5-8% anyway.

Edited by unthrottled on 15/12/2011 at 20:59

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Fri 16 Dec 2011 07:25
Nissan Note - Two winter wheels with tyres - 206Hdi
No insurance company would ever advise mixing summer and winter tyres, but I don't think there are any rules to stop you doing it and provided they have the right rating then it would be very difficult for them to reject a claim.

It's not as extreme but not dissimilar to having new 8mm michelin tyres on the front and old 1.6mm chinese tat tyres on the back, in both cases you are affecting the brake bias.

Equally if it was really the sort of thing that could get a claim rejected you'd have to consider the use of a space saver eg with my space saver on i am running a summer tyre with a completely different profile and braking capability to the other three and especially so if I am using winter tyres at the time.
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Fri 16 Dec 2011 08:00
Nissan Note - Two winter wheels with tyres - Trilogy

Unthrottled wrote 'not terribly important since it will under read by 5-8% anyway.'

I always thought speedometers have to over read. :)

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Fri 16 Dec 2011 10:56
Nissan Note - Two winter wheels with tyres - Ethan Edwards

Thanks guys. I would have bought them if he had four but as he's only selling two, I will let them go.

Shame as he's only asking about +/- £20 so far.

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Fri 16 Dec 2011 16:24
Nissan Note - Two winter wheels with tyres - unthrottled

Sorry Trilogy-you are quite right!

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Fri 16 Dec 2011 22:13
Nissan Note - Two winter wheels with tyres - Smileyman

There is nothing stopping you from buying these two at the great price on offer and then buying two more wheels & tyres to make up a set of 4

Get the Nissan wheel part number and search for that .... I did this in the summer and now have two sets of wheels, one with summer tyres and the second on the car now with winters.

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